mille passus

Latin

Alternative forms

• m.p., mp (abbreviations)
• mīlle passuum

Etymology

mīlle (“thousand”, indeclinable numeral) + the nominative plural of passus (“a pace, stride”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmiːl.lɛ ˈpas.suːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmil.le ˈpas.sus]

Noun

mīlle passūs m pl (genitive mīlle passuum); fourth declension

1. a Roman mile of 8 stadia (“stades”); 1,000 passūs (“paces”); or 5,000 pedēs (“feet”), approximately 4,854 English feet.

Declension

Indeclinable portion with a fourth-declension noun, plural only.

	plural
nominative	mīlle passūs
genitive	mīlle passuum
dative	mīlle passibus
accusative	mīlle passūs
ablative	mīlle passibus
vocative	mīlle passūs

Derived terms

• mīlle (“mile”)

Related terms

• mīlliārium
• mīlliārius
• mīllēnārius

References

• “mille”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mille” on page 1,109/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)